Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Thinking of her own cousin Guillermo Pombo, an engineer who had recently graduated from the University of Miami and was struggling to start his own business, Helena could see where Conrad was coming from. And yet her instinct was to oppose the idea. “Is there anything Unamano can do for me?

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Our job is to deliver the cutting-edge technologies they require. And, especially in recent years, as prolonged global economic challenges have rippled through the aerospace industry, we also need to make those technologies more affordable. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

Operations 8

Operations Incubator Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In the technology world, we’ve seen the tremendous impact that eBay has made in helping small e-commerce businesses get off the ground. Now imagine if eBay went beyond providing a technology platform and entered the field of business incubation in a meaningful way, It’s an idea that could have a huge impact. Most stagnate.

Business Incubator 9

Business Incubator Incubator Company Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Third, hardware entrepreneurs in some cities can now access a sophisticated supporting infrastructure, including a sizable ecosystem of hardware “studios,” incubators, accelerators, and service-providers that has grown up to abet start-ups in dozens of cities from Austin to Providence to Miami.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

There they met and worked with painters, sculptors, and other artists; architects, mathematicians, engineers, anatomists, and other scientists; and rich merchants who were patrons. In his workshop, younger artists might pursue engineering, architecture, or various business or scientific ventures.

Innovation 8

Innovation Workshop Incubator Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. In fact, America owes much of its recent growth, technological innovation, and socioeconomic progress, to inept managers. European taxpayers have funded much of the brainpower that stimulated technological innovation and economic growth in the U.S.

Leadership 16

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

Malone is a brilliant financial engineer, who creates separate capital structures — each with a unique stock — for his different lines of business. ” Google’s founders have strong views about where technology is going, and where it should go, and they don’t seem that bothered if others disagree.

Examples 8

Examples Incubator Restructuring Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Managers understand that having employees who understand the latest tools and technologies is vital to keeping a company competitive. At The Data Incubator , we work with hundreds of clients who hire PhD data scientists from our fellowship program or enroll their employees in our big data corporate training.

Training 8

Training Learning Curve Incubator Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

At the same time, our explanatory powers can push our own company to do its best thinking about the possibilities for connecting industrial technology, analytics, and user experiences. Incubate new businesses and models. We anticipate what our customers – future and present – will need, and describe it.

Innovation 16

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. This process leaves companies vulnerable to competitors who develop new forms of technology that initially fail to serve the "best" customers well, but quickly improve.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. Finally, carve out innovation incubators that will serve not only to build new businesses but also to grow general managers.

Management 14

Management P&L Incubator Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age. The second era requires larger scale in technology and deeper R&D expertise.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Governments and private investors have built the incubators, hosted the hackathons, and tossed around plenty of seed funding. Few of these rules were made with computing, or even technology, in mind. So why does Europe continue to miss out? Silicon Valley, it turns out, is built on two different infrastructures. And quickly.

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At The Data Incubator, we’ve talked to dozens of employers looking to hire data scientists from our training program, from large corporates like Pfizer and JPMorgan Chase to smaller tech startups like Foursquare and Upstart. Hiring Information & technology' It’s important to get the right person for either job.

Incubator 10

Incubator Information Technology Metrics Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Davos leaders who recognize that entrepreneurship is distinct from self-employment and small business, often fall into the trap of equating entrepreneurship with innovation and, by default, technology. Thus, designing one is an engineering task.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

But after spending the past two years traveling across the Arab world (and writing a book about innovation and entrepreneurship in the region), I also knew how younger generations and new technologies can redefine business and engagement across the board. We visited some of the greatest historic and cultural centers we have ever seen.

Travel 10

Travel Incubator Bottom-up Education 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. Matteo Fagiolino/Getty Images. But clusters go back much further than these examples. Moreover, a cluster can never be static.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

I''ve interviewed over 150 impressive, young entrepreneurs and engineers throughout the Arab world. To a person, everyone I interviewed was well-versed in the rapid adoption of mobile technology and believed that there will be at least five billion smart phones within a decade.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Start-up factories, incubation hubs, living laboratories, and hotspots for innovation are springing up in cities around the world.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” The next question was where to establish the software center.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

VJ, an engineer in India working on a development project, is trying to resolve technical issues within a software application. For decades companies like ours have tried and failed to solve collaboration problems using technology or policy changes to mandate behavior. VJ and Olivia are a perfect example of this.

Globalization 9

Globalization Incubator Incentives Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.".

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

1 billion price tag paid by Facebook for Instagram, whose primary asset is not technology, but the best photo sharing UX in the business (and some of the best UX talent as well). To close this gap, leading businesses like Google are exploring scalable strategies that make UX relevant to engineers and MBAs across their organizations.

Strategy 9

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The bar was set high: The district would need to create jobs, engage the surrounding community, inspire connection between the existing neighborhood and the broader city, preserve historical identity, and incubate entrepreneurship — all while making economic sense as a development.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

At the same time, our explanatory powers can push our own company to do its best thinking about the possibilities for connecting industrial technology, analytics, and user experiences. Incubate new businesses and models. We anticipate what our customers – future and present – will need, and describe it.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

According to the Journal of Management , NASA scientists and engineers found that performance increases as deadlines shorten, but when the deadlines became too short, performance declined. I've never published a book before, but I have incubated businesses. Research supports this. Dr. Ellen F.

Innovation 17

Innovation Incubator Business Model Wilde 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. Big Data meets travel.in Think about that.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Others see it as a giant economic engine spitting out startup after startup to capitalize on the region''s wealth of innovations. This is the reality of artists, musicians, community organizers, many of them non-techies, working side by side with techies to hack not so much technologies but ways of working, living, creating, and organizing.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

If you think about how new products and services are hatched and brought to market today, it isn't usually the doing of just one entity — least of all the corporate R&D labs that once served as our engines of tomorrow. Innocentive is a network that brings together "seekers" with technology challenges with "solvers" all over the world.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

At The Data Incubator , we work with hundreds of companies looking to hire data scientists and data engineers or enroll their employees in our corporate training programs. This may entail integration with existing technology projects, providing new data to automated systems, and establishing new processes.

Analysis 8

Analysis Incubator Advertising Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. It suggests that public money may be better spent on building incubators for migrant entrepreneurs than on building border walls. In the U.S., immigrants are almost twice as likely to become entrepreneurs as native-born U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The EU’s antitrust regulator charged Google for abuse of its position as the dominant search engine to promote its own businesses, while the European Parliament even voted in favor of breaking up Google. Engine, a startup advocacy, completes the picture with its assessment that 4.3 tech companies. in Sub-Saharan Africa and 27.7%

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

You’ve got funding and the blessing of your CEO and Board to go ahead with this high-profile “experiment” Your venture could be a growth engine for your corporation’s otherwise large but slow and steady core business. You’ve prepared a business plan for a promising new entrepreneurial venture.

Innovation 8

Innovation Constraint Analysis Objective 8